1. Thursday, June 13, 2013 Your Writing Assignment WCVM Writing Tools Workshop for Research Summer Students

2. Your Writing Assignment ✤ Your assignment: Produce a 600- to 700-word article about your research project. ✤ Interview: Article must include input from at least one interviewee. For example, your mentor or other member of research team. ✤ Viewpoint: Can begin story in first person (your perspective) and then switch to third person (your interviewee). Example: “Student studies diseases of wild urban rats.” tinyurl.com/n4skr5ltinyurl.com/n4skr5l ✤ Other options? Please contact me for further discussion.

3. Your Writing Assignment ✤ Your audience: Readers of WCVM Today (wcvmtoday.com). Your stories may be repurposed/reprinted by other web sites/publications. ✤ Submit your draft article to me (myrna.macdonald@usask.ca) before or by Friday, July 19.myrna.macdonald@usask.ca ✤ Editing: Story draft will be edited (mainly for style, grammar, punctuation). The file (including tracked changes) will be returned to you for review. ✤ Review: Edited story draft will be sent to your interviewee for final review/revisions.

4. Your Writing Assignment ✤ Photos: We can discuss ideas for photos or you can go ahead and take some shots! Please submit high resolution JPG files. ✤ Publication: Research summer students’ articles (including your byline) will be posted over next five to six months. ✤ Social media: Your stories will be promoted through Twitter, Facebook. Please feel free to post! ✤ Article examples? Search “Robyn Thrasher” or “Melissa Cavanagh” using WCVM Today’s search feature (wcvmtoday.com).

5. Questions? ✤ Contact Myrna MacDonald, Communications, WCVM ✤ myrna.macdonald@usask.ca or sm.ridley@sasktel.net myrna.macdonald@usask.casm.ridley@sasktel.net ✤ Desk: 1-306-225-4479 ✤ Cell: 306-291-9950